Nanoparticles in thermal energy systems

In Thermal Energy Systems the improvement of heat transfer is always a challenge for researcher. In particular, for storage and thermal management applications there are many improvement techniques to design and optimize the thermal energy systems, such as the addition of nanoparticles. The addition of nanoparticles in Heat Transfer Fluids (HTF) or in storage materials has lead to a new type of material called nanofluid if used for HTF or nano-PCM for storage applications. The main goal of the researchers is the characterization of the thermophysical properties of these new kind of materials.